Hogan Lovells Hires Top FDA Lawyer

David Horowitz, who spent the past 25 years working in the Department of Health and Human Services, most recently as deputy general counsel, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.

At Hogan Lovells, Horowitz will join the government regulatory practice group, and focus on helping pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with policy advocacy and compliance issues, he said.

“Obviously the landscape is shifting in many key ways at the FDA,” Horowitz said. “The government is focusing on deregulating.”

As the deputy general counsel of HHS starting in 2010 until January 2017, he oversaw the legal services ...